What's the difference between castle and peel?

Castle


Definition:

  • (n.) A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
  • (n.) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
  • (n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
  • (n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
  • (v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
  • (2) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
  • (3) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
  • (4) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
  • (5) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
  • (6) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
  • (7) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
  • (8) Channel 4's best audience was for Dover Castle: a Time Team Special, with 1.4 million and 6% in the 8pm hour and another 120,000 on digital catchup service Channel 4 +1 an hour later.
  • (9) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
  • (10) The tour guide told us that British soldiers who lived and worked in the castle often married local women – something I didn’t know.
  • (11) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
  • (12) This is some "Englishman's castle", merely the direct result of half a century of political bribery .
  • (13) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
  • (14) Castle and exhibitions open daily 1 Feb-24 Dec, 10am-6pm, visitor centre open daily 12 March- 31 Oct, 10am-5pm.
  • (15) Demi Restaurant, Rruga Butrinti, Saranda (+355 85 224 636) Rozafa Castle, Shkodra, Albania If you like horror stories, you'll love Rozafa Castle.
  • (16) We’re having such a good time,” said Tess McKenzie, of Castle Welsh Crafts.
  • (17) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
  • (18) In chronological order the four shortlisted contenders are: Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP (1892), the nearest thing it has to a founder; Clement Attlee, presiding mastermind of the postwar welfare state; Aneurin Bevan, charismatic architect of Labour's best-loved, most enduring institution, the NHS; and Barbara Castle, the woman prime minister Labour never had.
  • (19) The last bit means "baron of Guttenberg", a village in the Franken area of Bavaria where the Guttenbergs have had their family seat – an impressive castle – since 1315.
  • (20) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.

Peel


Definition:

  • (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  • (n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
  • (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
  • (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
  • (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
  • (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
  • (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
  • (2) Turn the sponge out onto the paper, then carefully peel off the lining paper.
  • (3) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (4) Certain advantages over chemical peeling and dermabrasion used singly or together in different areas of the face are pointed out.
  • (5) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
  • (6) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (7) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
  • (8) Such prosecretory granules, large and irregular in shape, "peeled off" from the stacks of saccules with residual saccular or tubular structures still attached to them, some of the latter forming trans-tubular networks.
  • (9) Despite huge uncertainties over their ability to pay for carbon capture and storage technology, [Peel subsidiary] Ayrshire Power has decided to go ahead with these plans and call Labour's bluff.
  • (10) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
  • (11) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
  • (12) The major benefit of the peeling technique is the preservation of an intact posterior capsule.
  • (13) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
  • (14) In addition, patterns which have been considered more characteristic of in vivo demyelinative lesions have been found, susch as vesicular disruption of myelin lamellae and peeling off and phagocytosis of myelin by phagocytic mononuclear cells with electron dense cytoplasm.
  • (15) In addition to the increased calcium leachability, the dentin bonding agent peeled off with time from the dentin discs.
  • (16) PriyaKannath via GuardianWitness Makes 2-3 glasses ½ medium beetroot 1 medium carrot 1 celery stalk 1 apple 125g cooked brown rice 1 Peel and roughly chop the beetroot, carrot, celery and apple, and put in a smoothie maker or blender along with the rice and about 300ml water.
  • (17) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
  • (18) 2 Puree together the pomegranate jewels and the peeled satsumas.
  • (19) Incorporation of the stock diet to the peel diet resulted in a slight increase which amounted to 6% in both male and female rat groups.
  • (20) There were no signs of valvular stenosis, exuberant peel formation, or calcification of the conduit in any of the patients.